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I really really hope that all the neighbours begining with Pakistan work together. By the way Pakistan is the most 'connected' country with Afghanistan. We are almost hisrorical and geographical twins. Peshawar and Kabul are like Izmir and Istanbul. Pakistan Uzbekistan Tajikistan Turkmemistan...

Here is a fact for you all guys. The Taliban have already demonstrated that they have significant and I mean significant support from the Afghan peoples. No serious person buys into that childish claim that ISI or Pakistan are behind this. If this was indeed true I think I would own that charge...

Any Turkish effort would rely on local third party - Pakistan, Uzbekistan etc. PM Imran Khan spent two days in Uzbekistan few weeks ago in a effort to get the Uzbek position on Afghanistan in line with Pakistan. From what I read President Shavkat and PM IK really found common ground and agreed...

Are you so averse to Pakistan that you don't include the most critical country in this list? As regards the success or otherwise may I suggest at worst it will end up as failure like the preceding alphabet combo and at best might end up with slightly better outcome then what is at present. You...

As if that has not already happened. Here is few facts for you beyond Fox News template - there was no suicide bombing in Pakistan before 2001 US invasion our border regions were relatively calm before the storm hit us in 2005 onwards as direct consequence of US invasion. the terrorists began...

That was a relative comment said in the context of the oft repeated Taliban are the 'champions of heritage destruction'. The damage America did to the historical sites, theft of priceless works of art etc going back to Mesopotamian era in Iraq is unmatched. And try not to please make it look...

I think we have over 40 years with every mix and combo from across the globe try and fail to validate this. ISAF and NATO are the latest to fail.

Any state that Blinken does not like is a pariah state. Thank god for this American dictatorship over the world is coming to end. We need a multipolar world. There is not much differance between Taliban and USA. Both think they are god's regent and what they say is holy commandments. Only...

If political neogiations fail I think next summer will decide the fate of Afghanistan.

Well said. Brutally honest. This is just a chessgame being played and the globe is the board. The then much lauded 'Mujihadeen' were nothing but pack of brutal, savage, primtive beasts. I used to watch regular BBC reports by Sandy Gall from behind the lines with Mujihadeen. In one report a Red...

Ignore it or rebut it. There too many of these guys to 'get rid of'. He quotes Saleh who says "proxies". This is guy who was intalled by 150,000 US proxy soldiers and even now is covered by USAF sorties.

@LegioXLupus In case you did not know there was no TTP before 9/11 and Taliban had been in power since 1997. TTP only emerged after USA invaded Afghanistan and the war spilled over into our side. So there is poor correlation between Taliban rule and TTP. TTP caused us maximum grief from 2008-14...

And you think in this analogy Pakistan had a 'gun' to defend itself from the might of USA?

Any 'proof' I provide your not going to accept. The problem with these things is we can never get proof' that all will accept. Kulbhushan Sudhir Jadhav (also spelled Kulbhushan Yadav, alleged alias Hussain Mubarak Patel)[6][7][8] (born 16 April 1970) is an Indian national. It is alleged by the...

Pakistan safely returned the Afghan soldiers who ran over the border to escape the Taliban.

I have never understood why the Anglo-Russian Line does not get any attention [it is the boundary imposed by Russia and Britain on Afghanistan in the north] but the Durand Line gets all the attention. Then there was the Panjdeh incident in which Russia pushed south into Afghan territory and...

The fact is the status quo you see in Afghanistan has been imposed by US Marine Corps, USAF B-52 bombers, MOAB bombs, Daisy cutters, Apache gunships etc. Once you pull that out it will revert to status quo ante.

So, if I placed a gun on your head I am sure you would comply - but if my demands amounted to slicing yourself I think you would do your best to avoid that.

Which particular thing do you want proof for?

I have always been amused at the claim that first Pakistan supports the Taliban and second that it is being deceptive. The truth is it USA that decieved. Whenb USA wanted to invade Afghanistan in 2001 and topple the Taliban it came kocking at Pakistan's door to use our air and sea ports...